JimBowie1958
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Top Ten Reagan Quotes
10) "The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other
man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever
God intends he should become."
9) "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need
for its own existence."
8) "I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless
government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat
and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty
contracts."
7) "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is
guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American
precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
6) "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
5) "The ultimate determinate in the struggle now going on for the world will
not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of
spiritual resolve; the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideas
to which we are dedicated."
4) "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and
Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands
Marx and Lenin."
3) "The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith
that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them
mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray
to God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference
between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
2) "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We
didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend
our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it
was once like in the United States where men were free."
1) "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we
have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."
man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever
God intends he should become."
9) "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need
for its own existence."
8) "I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless
government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat
and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty
contracts."
7) "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is
guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American
precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
6) "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
5) "The ultimate determinate in the struggle now going on for the world will
not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of
spiritual resolve; the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideas
to which we are dedicated."
4) "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and
Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands
Marx and Lenin."
3) "The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith
that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them
mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray
to God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference
between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
2) "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We
didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend
our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it
was once like in the United States where men were free."
1) "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we
have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."
Prior to winning office, Reagan had been denounced as an unelectable extremist;
he won two record landslides.
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